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Environmental impacts of drought on desertification classification
, 2017 Desertification is an ecological and environmental issue and a slow-developing hazard. Desertification constitutes land degradation in arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas.
Dalezios N.R., Eslamian S. +1 more
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Examining the Role of Economic Complexity and Climate Readiness in the Climate‐Fishing Nexus
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the climate‐fisheries association in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations from 1999 to 2022. A key objective is to explore the role of both the economic complexity index (ECI) and the climate readiness factor (READ) in the climate‐fishing nexus.
Mohamed Sami Ben Ali +2 more
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Mapping Desertification: Constraints and Challenges
, 2016 Mapping desertification has proven to be a challenging task. Difficulties derive from its ambiguous definition and the comprehensive integration of various biophysical and socioeconomic indicators that need to be considered in the evaluation process.
CHERLET Michael +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change, political stability, and sustainability are three central factors that interact and serve as key drivers of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Accordingly, this paper aims to fill a vital research gap by examining the impacts of climate change, natural resource ...
Hicham Ayad +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding whether the interaction between economic activity and forest ecosystems manifests as conflict or synergy is central to designing effective, sustainable development policies. Although the environmental Kuznets curve framework is frequently utilized to explain this relationship, its analytical scope remains limited, as it ...
Umut Uzar, Kemal Eyuboglu
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LandThe problem of desertification in the Tarim Basin, an area with a unique geography and climatic conditions, has received extensive research attention not only in China but also around the world.
Xiaoming Cao +3 more
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Paleontological data provide information on natural environments prior to human influence, which are useful for tracking changes in ecosystem functioning through time. During the Late Pleistocene, about 10% of terrestrial mammalian species were extinct in South America.
Thayara S. Carrasco +3 more
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Ecological IndicatorsSandy desertification currently poses a severe environmental challenge, hindering the socio-economic development of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) drylands.
Zhijia Zheng +3 more
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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
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